Jessica Brough

Background

About Jessica Brough

Psychologist and educator with five years of higher education teaching experience in psychology, statistics, programming, and research methods, and ten years of research experience which has also included five years in professional, digital industry. My research background spans adult and developmental psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology, social psychology, and social robotics, and I have worked with a range of testing methods, including eye-tracking and longitudinal studies, with children and adults, and in laboratory and online environments. I am a skilled communicator and an experienced organiser of large-scale events, including conferences, workshops, and festivals.I am a writer and arts organiser based between Barcelona and Edinburgh. My fiction and essays interrogate moral and ethical concerns of modern technology, which I have written about for Spread the Word, New Scientist, on Substack, and through my PhD in psycholinguistics. My poetry can be found in The Colour of Madness (Updated Edition) and in the Scottish BPOC Writers Network’s Audio Anthology series. I am also the founder and director of Fringe of Colour, an arts initiative that has supported People of Colour at the Edinburgh festivals since 2018, and I am the editor of the project’s platform "Responses," publishing subjectivity-led arts writing that goes beyond reviews.